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The Berlin Bundestag observed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday. Inge Auerbacher, a survivor, told the MPs about her deportation to Theresienstadt.

On January 20th, 1942, some of Hitler's henchmen gathered in a villa at the Wannsee, one of Berlin's lakes. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security…

In late 2021, Germany had a new government and a deteriorating Corona pandemic. Not all news in the second half of the year were Corona-related though. What…

At the end of 2021, there seem to be lots of similarities with last year's situation. A new, more contagious variant of the Coronavirus is hitting Germany, the number of new infections is more or less the same and the outlook is sort of grim. But not all events of 2021 were about Corona. What happened from January to June?

During the Night of Broken Glass on November 9th, 1938, mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and burned down synagogues all over Germany. Fifty-one years…

Ernst Marcus, a Berlin lawyer, woke up in his apartment in the German capital's Grunewald district eighty-three years ago. What he saw was unbelievable.

Exactly eighty years ago, German soldiers murdered 33,771 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at Babi Yar was one of the most horrific massacres of all time.

August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all angles. They were interested in this vibrant…

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his…

Every year, Berlin celebrates the Airlift, which ended 72 year ago. The operation organized by the Western Allies saved the lives of the residents in Berlin's Western districts after the Soviet Union started the Berlin Blockade. A small anniversary event took place in Tempelhof this morning.